Tag: behavior

A mere bacteria, a viral infection, a muscle strain are enough to completely disrupt the routine, to leave even the healthiest person lying in bed, groaning. For that reason alone, it is clear that we are nothing, and that gratitude must necessarily follow the good days. When struck down by some ailment, we cannot think of anything else but when recovery will come. Time stands still, the discomfort does not subside, and comfort often comes only from the thought that it could be worse. And, certainly, it could be…

It has become a common belief that, to prove his competence on a talk show, a journalist must put the interviewee on the spot, confront him, expose him, and highlight his flaws and contradictions. A competent journalist, therefore, must masterfully play the role of accuser. If, for example, a journalist thinks a little differently and believes that his role is simply to try to draw out the best and most interesting aspects of the interviewee, allowing himself to take a back seat to the topic that should take center stage, he must be reborn in another era, for there is no room for such an approach in today’s journalism. A talk show exists to provoke clashes, interruptions, and leading questions. And the interviewee is there so that the audience can either acquit or condemn him.

He who puts himself in the public eye and achieves some measure of success can be certain of the following: there will undoubtedly be a bad day, a day when, for whatever reason, he shows weakness, fails, or simply provokes a negative reaction. On that day, detractors will emerge from every corner, in far greater numbers than he imagines. The chorus will give the impression of unanimity; whatever they say will sound like common sense. His image, therefore, will suffer a blow, and for a moment no one will remember what he has done or who he is. It will, of course, be a thoroughly unpleasant experience; but publicity means having to go through it, and those who endure it without losing their balance emerge stronger.

Just as one cannot escape envy or unwanted enmities, one cannot avoid instant and fatal antipathies. It is truly intolerable: the futility of these experiences is glaringly obvious; an ordinary man would do anything, would give up almost everything to avoid them. But he has no such option. The prince of this world has his own plans, and he forces him to live them out constantly, no matter how much he hates them or how hard he tries to evade them. He will wake up happy, on one of those days when life seems to flow smoothly, under control, and pleasantly, and then everything will turn sour with that unnecessary encounter. The devil laughs…